Quotes About Experience

But as much as I tried, I couldn't forget my past. The events that had shaped me continued to weigh on my soul.

Instead of relishing life, people merely existed. Such was the case with my family.

It didn't feel like my world. It felt more like a dream. Something temporary.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different amounts depending on who was seeing things and how.

I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer--not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote string of words, but rather a kind of sacred listening. [p, 355]

her. After graduation she had worked for six months at the telephone company, a job she'd not enjoyed

We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad?

She reeked of tenure

You aren't kidding. But you know, it's likely going to be the only time I'll ever be that skinny and have a fur coat.

If you do it once, it's a mistake. If you do it twice, it's not a mistake anymore.

You think?" I snapped, jumping when Newt slammed a side kick into the barrier, her robes swirling dramatically. Great, she knew martial arts on top of everything else. Why not? She'd obviously been around a while.

Falling in love was the easiest thing in the world to do. Why was it always so hard for me to survive it?

Mistakes can be fixed, but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

Travel this country and you move through more than geography; you move through time.

Uncle Austin used to say that all of our joy and suffering comes from the same single sacred utterance; that we live by being wounded and healed and wounded again, and healed, one day at a time.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

Memory is a haunting.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Happy and angry. Happily angry. Everything, all at once. That's life, boy. You just keep getting fuller, until you burst and Allah takes you and casts your soul into another life later on. And so everything just keeps getting fuller.